Triggers: Instructional Strategies
for Student Understanding
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Jacqueline Loiacono, Education Consultant
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Instructional Triggers
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Process Skills Descriptors
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Big Rock Concept
Measurement
Concept Pattern
Unit Guiding Question(s)
How are units of
measurement
used in daily
life?
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Learning 360 Framework
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Learning Targets
 Engage in an instructional strategy,
Triggers
 Make connections between this
learning strategy and higher-level
thinking skills
 Describe implementation strategies
for guaranteed impact
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Essential Questions
How do we design for true student
engagement?
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Design with intention
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Evanescent adj. to disappear or slowly fade away.
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Key Questions
• Which answer is correct?
• What accounts for the differences in responses?
• How does this impact student engagement?
WHAT IS TRUE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT?????
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HOW DO WE TEACH
PROCESS SKILLS??
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Process Skills Descriptors
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Instructional Triggers
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Evanescent adj. to disappear or slowly fade away.
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Color Association
RED
BLACK
JUSTIFY/SUPPORT
ORANGE
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Acrostic
ADDITION
M
TWENTY-SEVEN
N
D
M
E
N
RATIFICATION
S
1. Brainstorm all words
and phrases
associated to word
2. Create Acrostic
3. Letter may appear at
any point within word
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Evanescent adj. to disappear or slowly fade away.
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Equation
__________________+________________________=EVANESCENT
_________________-________________+_____________= EVANESCENT
________________________X ______________________=EVANESCENT
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Trigger Implementation
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Introduce
Model
Apply Content
Connections
Have
intentional
conversations
and provide a
Triggers sheet.
Model, model,
model with noncontent material.
Students use
Triggers to show
content
understanding.
See connections
between Triggers
and higher-level
thinking Skills
(Metacognition).
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Why do Triggers Work?
MOTIVATION
STUDENT CHOICE
 Doable
 Practical
 Valuable
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Summarize the points a
speaker makes and explain
how each claim is supported
by reasons and evidence.
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• Reading Key Ideas and Details:
Determine a theme or central idea of a text
and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including its relationship
to the characters, setting, and plot; provide
an objective summary of the text.
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Learning Targets
 Engage in the instructional strategy,
Triggers
 Make connections between this
learning strategy and higher-level
thinking skills
 Describe implementation strategies
for guaranteed impact
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Essential Questions
How do we design for true student
engagement?
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of this webinar for a chance to win
a free Learning Targets Classroom
Poster Set, featured in this webinar.
Also available for purchase for $49.95 at:
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Framework_Poster_Set_BOLSLPK
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